High school students (from left) Scott Olson, Nathaneal Burrell and Timothy Page work on a roller coaster model as part of the Collegiate Scholars Summer Enrichment program at Arizona State University. Students from around the Valley participated in the four-day pilot program sponsored by the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic campus and the University Student Initiatives Office.

Group exercises were only part of the learning experience during the three-day Summer Leadership Symposium at ASU's West campus. The symposium, presented by AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute, provided 150 high-achieving Latino/Latina high school students with an introduction to the college experience.

About 50 Arizona middle school students participated in the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp coordinated by ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. The camp gave youngsters first-hand experience with science experiments, role models and innovative education programs to encourage their interest in math and science courses in the schools they attend. Harris himself (far right) made an special appearance.

It's not all class work as Stephany Hurtado, from San Luis High School in Yuma, and other Barrett Summer Scholars slide down the banisters in ASU's Discovery Hall. More than 100 eighth- and ninth-graders, who are in the 97th percentile of their class, filled the halls of ASU’s Barrett, the Honors College this summer to experience an enriched academic curriculum.

Daniel Morales (right) and Natalie Lewis were two of 29 high school students who spent 15 days at ASU this past summer learning Chinese drawing skills. They are part of STARTALK, a program funded by the National Security Initiative that provides summer programs in critical-need languages for K-12 teachers and students.

A student in the Conexiones program contemplates images on a laptop on ASU's Polytechnic campus. Conexiones, a cooperative effort between Arizona State University's Applied Learning Technologies Institute (ALTI) and the Arizona Department of Education Migrant Education Unit, seeks to use technology to unlock the imaginations of young people and engage them in producing thought-provoking media.

Students Wesley Burnham (left) and Khoi Nguyen from Carson Junior High School in Mesa, Ariz., learn how to program a graphing calculator using a toy car. They were part of a technologically centered, discovery-based three-day research internship that allowed students to explore science, technology, engineering and math-related concepts.

More than 20 high school students from around the Valley worked alongside Biodesign Institute scientists as part of a summer high school internship at ASU. Their research projects ranged from decontamination of groundwater to building nanostructures for diagnostics and working on cures for infectious diseases and cancer.

The ASU Collegiate Scholars: Student Enrichment Program (ASU-CS: SEP), a no-cost university-level experience designed to ease students’ transition from high school to higher education, brought together some of the Valley's highest-achieving high school students for three days in July at the West campus. Students, such as Ariana Baca (right), who will be a senior this fall at Alhambra High School in Phoenix, were given the opportunity to preview psychology and English courses.